A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s2.34
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s2.34
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The rather immodest females adorning many of the pillars were supposed by Cunningham to be dancing-girls, an opinion certainly erroneous. They appear rather, as argued by Dr. Vogel, to belong to the Yakshī class, like the somewhat similar figures of the Bharhut rail (*ante*, p. 74). Some of the figures are really meant to be naked, but in others the apparent nudity is merely an artistic convention. The female [Figure: FIG. 86. Two Yakshīs (?); Indian Museum.